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Remain Composed

Remain Composed

By: William King
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A podcast featuring interviews with people who write music. How do composers start new pieces? How do they take an idea and develop into a work of art? In Remain Composed, we meet people writing different kinds of music, at different stages in their careers, to find out what influences them and how their processes work.

William King 2026 Art Entertainment & Performing Arts Music
Episodes
  • Anna Appleby on creative process, alter-egos, scrambled eggs and soup

    Anna Appleby on creative process, alter-egos, scrambled eggs and soup
    Jan 18 2026

    Anna Appleby is a composer and professor of composition at the Royal Northern College of Music. Explaining her creative process, Anna says music often starts in either her body or voice, or it comes from the environment around her. She explains how the music she hears contributes to her creative output, and the role synesthesia plays in her relationship with sound.

    Anna’s performer alter-ego is Norrisette. We find out how she found this voice during the Covid-19 pandemic whilst working on an opera for the BBC Philharmonic set on a fictional farm.

    Anna also describes how important she finds restrictions, and the role of collaboration with performers, when commissioned to write new works. And she discusses the differences between writing for professional and leisure-time musicians.
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    33 mins
  • Welcome to Remain Composed

    Welcome to Remain Composed
    Jan 11 2026

    Hello! This trailer features some of our first guests, with episodes coming your way weekly from Sunday 18th January 2026.
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    1 min
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